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Westworld: Season 1 (DVD)
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Genre | Sci-fi |
Format | DVD |
Contributor | Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jonathan Nolan, Jeffrey Wright, Various Others, Frederick E.O. Toye, Ed Harris See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 8 hours and 20 minutes |
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Westworld Season 1

- 2016
- Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast
Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Ford
Ed Harris - Man In Black
Evan Rachel Wood - Dolores
James Marsden - Teddy
Thandie Newton - Maeve
Every Hero Has a Code
Synopsis
Westworld is a one-hour drama series about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. The 10-episode series is set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Westworld explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Director
Jonathan Nolan
Product description
Westworld is a dark odyssey about artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Days of fantasy play out in a vast, remote Wild West park where a guest pays top dollar to become the person they've always dreamed of during their adventures with android hosts. But behind the scenes, something's not right. Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins lead an impeccable ensemble cast in this enthralling 10-episode series from Kilter Films and Bad Robot Productions.
Product details
- Language : English
- Product dimensions : 1.4 x 13.5 x 17 cm; 80 Grams
- Item Model Number : R-126601-9
- Director : Frederick E.O. Toye, Jonathan Nolan, Various Others
- Media Format : DVD
- Run time : 8 hours and 20 minutes
- Release date : 8 November 2017
- Actors : Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright
- Dubbed: : English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Roadshow Entertainment
- ASIN : B0771JRYCZ
- Country of origin : Australia
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,303 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- 1,489 in TV Shows (Movies & TV)
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"Westworld Season 1" takes the concept of the original Michael Crichton movie and expands it drastically, making it an exquisitely dark tale about entertainment and sentience. The themes are ones that have been done to death elsewhere (playing God, the potential for artificial intelligence), but the intricacy of its writing sculpts this into a slow-burning, hauntingly intense tangle of dreams, mazes and intertwining realities.
For decades, Westworld has been the playground of wealthy people who want sex, violence and to just indulge their base desires. The park is full of "hosts," semi-sentient androids who truly believe they are gunslingers, farm girls, madams, desperados and so on. They die over and over, and are reassigned like dolls to different lives. And the patrons -- such as timid William (Jimmi Simpson) and his depraved "friend" Logan (Ben Barnes) -- are allowed to kill, rape and rampage through the hosts.
But something is changing in Westworld. Some of the hosts are acting strangely, speaking to a man who no longer exists. Others -- including dreamy farmgirl Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and hard-nosed madam Maeve (Thandie Newton) -- are becoming aware of what they are. Fragments of forgotten experiences are coming back to them, and Maeve even snaps back to consciousness in a repair center. Along with William, Dolores begins a quest into the depths of Westworld, searching for something she can't even identify -- but which might give her the freedom she craves.
At the heart of Westworld's success is Dr. Ford (Anthony Hopkins), who has just introduced a vast new storyline and a cruel villain to the artificial world, throwing the company into disarray. His increasingly strange behavior coincides with programming director Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) learning of a plot within the company. And making his way through Westworld is the Man in Black (Ed Harris), a mysterious guest who is in search of the Maze.
They say there are no new ideas, and "Westworld Season 1" is a good argument that it doesn't even matter. The themes of this story are old, well-worn sci-fi tropes -- the dangers of playing God, the line between man and machine, the point where an artificial intelligence could be considered alive -- but the presentation and skill with which they're written makes them feel fresh and incisive. Well, that and the awareness (missing from most sci-fi) that human beings can be unfathomably cruel.
The story is a slow-unfolding one, and Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy scatter countless mysteries and unanswered questions throughout it, slowly building on each other with every new episode. What is the Maze? What is Dr. Ford planning? What happened with Arnold? And are the hosts truly achieving sentience, and if so, how has it happened? These questions are raised and expanded with exquisite slowness, but they're still very gripping.
Half of the story is in the bloody, gritty, sun-baked Westworld, where life is even cheaper than it was in the real Wild West, and the other half is in the dark, glassy labyrinth of the actual Westworld corporation. These two worlds start to bleed into each other more with every passing episode, with haunting, exquisitely-disturbing visuals scattered throughout -- from the faceless hazmat-suited men that haunt the hosts, to the player piano that (very symbolically) can only play a prearranged, mechanical tune.
It also has a spectacular cast -- Hopkins as a sinisterly paternal overlord of the company; Wright as an amiable man who begins to think the hosts can be more than they are, and with good reason; Simpson as one of the few good, gentle people to visit the park; Harris as a cruel and mysterious figure who has seemingly appointed himself the villain; and Wood as a naive, romantic farm girl doomed to a "loop" of rape and loss, who begins a quest to learn the truth of her world.
There are a lot of solid supporting performances, like Rodrigo Santoro, Tessa Thompson, Ben Barnes, Shannon Woodward and James Marsden, but the easy standout is Thandie Newton as Maeve -- she's a fiercely independent, strong-willed woman who discovers that everything about her life is artificial, but takes the chance to seize control of it anyway.
The one problem? One of the underlying themes is that it's bad to indulge in unlimited fantasy violence and sex with unconsenting "fake" people... except this message is coming from HBO, who have fictional graphic violence and sex as their bread and butter. Seriously, one scene has Maeve provoking a guest into strangling her as he rapes her.
While some of the themes are well-trodden, "Westworld Season 1" is a richly-detailed expansion of the original movie, with excellent acting and sublime writing. But just where will playing God take us next?
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PRO:
- Un tassello fondamentale della televisione contemporanea.
- Scrittura di un livello sopraffino.
- In ogni disco c'è una mole non indifferente di contenuti extra.
CONTRO:
- Nulla da segnalare.

Reviewed in Italy on 18 July 2022
PRO:
- Un tassello fondamentale della televisione contemporanea.
- Scrittura di un livello sopraffino.
- In ogni disco c'è una mole non indifferente di contenuti extra.
CONTRO:
- Nulla da segnalare.


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